Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-11 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hi! On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: Even if you use the bash-static package, bash gets installed into /usr/local/bin (IIRC) and you may not have /usr while being in single user

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:40:28PM +0700, Tito Mari Francis Esca?o wrote: | I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The | pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not | being able to load libiconv which I believe is a dependency of bash. | With the

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread edgarz
reboot in single mode (boot -s) manually mount your partitions and delete unneeded trash :) Tito Mari Francis Escaqo wrote: I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not being able to load libiconv which I

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the bash-static from packages, and hadn't any problems. I think that booting in single and

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Marian Hettwer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell There is

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Hannah Schroeter
Hi! On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 04:17:11PM +0200, Marian Hettwer wrote: [...] Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell There is absolutely no reason to change root's shell. There is even no reason at all to work as root. Use sudo, or even su -m, or execute bash after

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:50:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Greg Thomas
On 5/10/06, Giancarlo Razzolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the bash-static from packages, and

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Greg Thomas wrote: On 5/10/06, Giancarlo Razzolini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use the

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
Daniel Ouellet wrote: As good example to help understand this in practice is just like this. You install your package bash-static, you think you are clever, fine. Then time pass, you work with someone else, a new release come out, you need to upgrade that box, but it happen to be remote. You

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Daniel Ouellet
the shell, but might break. Further more, all my upgrades are done locally. I do not have the luxury of having a remote serial console with those nasty pci cards that can put even the BIOS to go through the serial. I can live with it. Will not recommend people anymore to change Who said you

Re: /var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-10 Thread Nick Holland
Tobias Ulmer wrote: On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 10:50:14AM -0300, Giancarlo Razzolini wrote: Paul de Weerd wrote: Don't change root's shell. It's set to a static shell (/bin/ksh these days) for a reason. Changing the root shell doesn't hurt. But you have to install your shell static. I use

/var filled up and can't login locally or remotely

2006-05-09 Thread Tito Mari Francis EscaƱo
I got me a 3.8 box as gateway with bash as root's default shell. The pf logs filled up the /var partition and bash complained about not being able to load libiconv which I believe is a dependency of bash. With the failure of loading libiconv, I can't login on the gateway box and I can't login